Each new Ministry album is an exercise in stress-testing the listener, generating a sonic bombardment that grinds through the outer protective layers and churns up whatever lies beneath. The lyrics in Ministry songs often don't matter -- what matters is the tone and shape of the music, the precise way in which instruments sounds and samples are twisted, straightened, kinked, crushed, broken, reassembled, done unto, whether drum sounds have this kind of gated reverb or that kind of overdriven chorusing, and just what they mean to impart with this tempo or that. Filth Pig is 54 minutes of slow-churn sandpaper attitude, a record that includes a cover of Bob Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay" that is one half friendly homage and one half power-tool demolition derby. This is Ministry, though, a race through dark places, driven by the razorbass.
I just reallized for the first time yesterday. I was Sunday-driving in the fleeting warmth of early fall, and it hit me that all of the joy that I was feeling was coming from the music.I know that you've probably had this experience a million times before..but I guess I've always felt any kind of music as either a fitting soundtrack for whatever I was experiencing, or a structural thing to adm...
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I just reallized for the first time yesterday. I was Sunday-driving in the fleeting warmth of early fall, and it hit me that all of the joy that I was feeling was coming from the music.I know that you've probably had this experience a million times before..but I guess I've always felt any kind of music as either a fitting soundtrack for whatever I was experiencing, or a structural thing to adm...
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